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The Huntington Town Board has approved the following expenditures: Up to $50,000 for tactile signs at Heckscher Museum and the historic Centerport home of painters Arthur Dove and Helen Torr, to provide accessible maps for the visually impaired, at the request of the museum director. Read More …
A huge student-produced mural was unveiled Sunday as part of the Spirit of Summer Art Festival. The festival, at the Spirit of Huntington Art Center, drew participants from numerous Long Island organizations, as well as families and residents to view, and occasionally purchase, artwork and Read More …
The Huntington Public Library will host the launch of author Reed Farrel Coleman’s 32nd novel, “Sleepless City,” the first novel in his new series. Coleman has written six in the late Robert Parker’s Jesse Stone. The author grew up in Brooklyn but lives in Long Read More …
The Whaling Museum in Cold Spring Harbor is drawing on Long Islanders’ love of beaches for its second sea glass festival this weekend. Many on Long Island go to the beach to collect physically and chemically weathered glass found on beaches along bodies of salt Read More …
Thirty years ago, Michael Ien Cohen walked into the Cinema Arts Center and was greeted by directors and co-founders of the establishment, Vic Skolnick and Charlotte Sky. Cohen had always wanted to be a film maker. Cohen was ecstatic to meet the directors and co-founders. Read More …
The Huntington Township Chamber of Commerce will be raising funds July 25 to support a Hecksher Museum multimedia project. The chamber social, called Huntington Nights, will offer raffles, dancing, food, drinks and more. It is designed to help fund “Illuminations 2023: The Many Faces of Read More …
Eight students who plan to pursue an education in the arts were honored with Otto Kahn Awards at Oheka Castle Wednesday. Friends of Oheka said the students received $3,000 each. They are: Victoria Befumo, Huntington High School Fern Brazeau, Walt Whitman High School Anabelle Bryant, Read More …
Huntington Village put art on display Saturday with the Huntington Public Art Crawl. Designed to show the economic value of the culture in Huntington, the festival had displays of artwork, music, pottery, murals and more. Though most of the vendors were set up on Wall Read More …
You can walk or you can crawl, but whatever your method of locomotion, there’s are easy ways coming up to sample the arts in downtown Huntington. On May 21, participants can take a self-guided tour of exhibits at the museums and galleries downtown. Several of Read More …
The Art League of Long Island has been awarded a $25,000 grant to improve its heating and cooling system. The grant from the New York State Council on the Arts will be used to replace one of the league’s 10-ton HVAC units that heat and Read More …
Tracey Edwards, Long Island regional director of the NAACP, and her mother, Dolores Thompson, will be honored at a dinner May 12 to benefit the Heckscher Museum of Art. Thompson is the founder of the Huntington Station Enrichment Center, a community facility for residents providing Read More …
The Heckscher Museum of Art is launching a program this summer to lend out some of its artwork to residents on a short-term basis. The Heckscher@Home program is co-sponsored by the Town of Huntington’s Cultural Affairs Department. The home program began at the onset of Read More …